[R-pkgs] ggplot2 - version 0.6

ggplot2 ------------------------------------------------------------
ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics,
which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and
avoid bad parts. It takes care of many of the fiddly details
that make plotting a hassle (like drawing legends) as well as
providing a powerful model of graphics that makes it easy to produce
complex multi-layered graphics.
Find out more at http://had.co.nz/ggplot2, and check out the over 400
examples of ggplot in use.
ggplot 0.6
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The two big changes in this release are improved documentation and legends:
* all major ggplot2 components now have their own built in
documentation, so that (e.g.) ?stat_smooth or ?geom_point now give you
useful information
* the legend code is now considerably more sophisticated and will
attempt to merge together legends for the same variable
* also, legends are drawn based on the geoms used (instead of the
scales used, as previously) so should match the plot much better (e.g.
for geom_smooth, geom_boxplot, geom_vline, geom_abline,
geom_pointrange).
These features are new, so there are likely to be a few bugs that I
haven't discovered. Please me know if you do find any.
Other additions and corrections
* coord_equal: should now work correctly in all situations
* coord_polar: add start and direction parameters, giving more
control over the layout of the polar coords
* coord_polar: added my favourite pie chart example
* coord_trans now deals with groups appropriately, at the cost of
decreased speed
* geom_abline, geom_vline, geom_hline: should now behave better in a
wider variety of settings
* geom_boxplot: deals with continuous x-axis and grouping much better
* geom_boxplot: now has it's own legend which actually looks like a boxplot
* geom_boxplot: reports if missing values removed
* geom_crossbar: the middle line is now display thicker than the
other lines, controlled by the parameter fatten (thanks to Heike
Hofmann for the suggestion)
* geom_density: fix scale adjustment bug in geom_density
* geom_line, geom_text: all size measurements (now lines and text as
well) are measured in mm, lines/paths default to paths 0.5mm wide
* geom_rug: new to add marginal rug plots
* geom_smooth: added example showing how to use geom_smooth with
your own models
* geom_smooth: fixed bug where if se=FALSE x axis always includes 0
* geom_vline, geom_hline: yet another rewrite which should make them
more powerful and less error prone.
* ggsave reports width and height of saved image
* position_stack: fixed bug when data was empty
* qplot: allow qplot to use computed aesthetics too
* scale_continuous: tweaks to minor breaks to make appearance better
on wider range of coordinate systems
* scale_discrete: all discrete scales now have labels argument which
you can use to override the factor levels
* scale_discrete: now works correctly with character vectors
* scale_size: changed default range to [0.5, 3] to better reflect
new sizing decisions
* scale_size: legends resize to avoid overlaps
* scale_x_continuous, scale_y_continuous: new convenience functions
xlim and ylim (and zlim) that make it even easier to adjust the limits
of the x, y, and z axes
* stat_bin, geom_area: fixed bug in combination of stat_bin and
geom_area that made it difficult to draw frequency polygons
* stat_bin: fixed bug which resulted in increased counts when the x
axis was a categorical variable with a single level (thanks to Bob
Muenchen for pointing this out!)
* stat_bin: no longer incorrectly warns that binwidth is unspecified
when breaks are set
* stat_bin: now takes origin argument to manually specify origin of
first bin (default is round_any(min(range), bin_width, floor))
* stat_boxplot, stat_contour, stat_density2d, stat_qq, stat_density:
na.rm parameter added to the following statistics (thanks to Leena
Choi for suggesting this)
* stat_function: new, makes it easy to superimpose a function on the plot
* stat_qq: axes flipped to agree with base R
* stat_qq: now uses sample aesthetic to select variable for summary
* stat_quantile: updated to work with latest version of quantreg
* stat_spoke: new, to make it possible to use geom_segment
parameterised by angle and radius (thanks to Jiho for the suggestion)
* stat_summary: better documentation
* stat_summary: convenient auto wrapping of simple summary functions
Miscellaneous changes:
* it's now easy to change the default scales (and their arguments)
with the set_default_scale function, see ?set_default_scale for more
details (thanks to Bob Muenchen for the suggestion)
* new order aesthetic which controls the order in which elements are plotted
* min and max are now scaled the same way as y
* functions are silently dropped (e.g. aes(colour=col))
* scales do not try and map variables that don't exist (fixes some
rather obscure bugs)
* aes(mpg, wt) is now equivalent to aes(x = mpg, y = wt)
See CHANGELOG for changes in previous versions
Regards,
Hadley
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